# Nigerian scammer "killed" me!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammer-killed-me/521072>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 13, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammer-killed-me/521072 "2009-12-13T05:00:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammer-killed-me/521072/21 "2009-12-15T03:25:15Z")

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> [@Skammer](#):
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> Well I thought it was a scam, but you don’t want to mess with the FBI. You’d better do what they say.

True story - I, er, “appropriated” the FBI’s webpage logo and used it at the top of the “about me” section of my website.

Never occurred to me that it might be illegal at the time. I was new to the internet and the niceties of “fair use” were somewhat lost on me - I figured if they didn’t run of those scripts that brings up a “naughty naughty!” box if you right clicked on their images, they didn’t mind you using them.

Thankfully I took the whole thing down like 10 years ago.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammer-killed-me/521072/22 "2009-12-15T18:13:21Z")

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\<channels Terry Pratchett\>

THERE’S NO JUSTICE. THERE’S JUST ME.

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